Should Dark Knight get a Rework?

[Shurrikhan]

I have a feeling it and FoF are going to be merged into a single buff move that will effect all of PLD's moves

Do you want them to be merged, though? For productive discussion, we might as well set out early on what we're okay with losing and what we aren't. I would think that A<->B flow between magic and physical phases, however each might be pulled off (e.g., be that phase-opener and spam or spam and phase-closer), is pretty iconic to PLD at this point and would be rather missed, identity-wise.


Or, to put it more vividly, if the expected result can only ever be shit-on-stale-and-wet-bread, after all, it's not particularly worth discussing the specifics of the fecal matter or the overaged bread grain, I would think? So if we're to get specific, we might as well seek out / narrow things down to decent food in the first place.

[RyuDragnier]

Do you want them to be merged, though? For productive discussion, we might as well set out early on what we're okay with losing and what we aren't. I would think that A<->B flow between magic and physical phases, however each might be pulled off (e.g., be that phase-opener and spam or spam and phase-closer), is pretty iconic to PLD at this point and would be rather missed, identity-wise.

I don't, no. But I am fully aware that part of the reason PLD is having difficulties is simply because it's sustained and doesn't really have a burst window. Meaning they have to condense that sustain into burst. The easiest way to do that is to combine the two buff windows into one singular burst window. Which requires moving stuff around. Snce the spells are already instants and there's no way in hell they're gonna remove the Royal Authority combo from being the main combo, that means the spell window has to be combined with the melee window. Thus, spells will likely become oGCDs. That's my logic anyway, but since we know SE doesn't really delve into logic much with tanks (see DRK), there's no telling what we'll get.